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Edited by I'fIOIHAS HAYNES. VO LU 31E VI—NUMBER 26. THE STANDARD OF UNION, BY P. E. HtOBINSON, publishfr (by authority) of the laws of the united states. TERMS.—Three Dollars per annum. No subscription taken for lesg than a yonr. and no paper discontinued, but at the option of the publisher, until nil arrearages arc paid. CHANGE OF DIRECTION.—We desire such of our subscribers as nmv nt any imc wish the direction of their papers changed from one Post Office to another, to inform us, in all cases, of the place to which they ad been previously* sent; as the mere order to forward them to r different office, places it almost out of our power to comply, because we have no means of ascertaining the office from which they are or dered to be changed, but by a search through our whole subscription book, containing several thousand names. ADV ERTISEMENTS inserted at the usual rates. Sales of LAND, by Administrators, Executors, or Guardians, are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the mouth, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, al the Court House in the coun ty in which the property is situate. Notice of hose sales must be gi ven in a public gazette SIXTY DAYS previous to the day of sale. Sales of NEGROES must bo at public auction, on the first Tuesday of the month between the usual hours of sale, at the* place of public •ales in the county whore the letters testimentary, of Administration or Guardiansliip.may have been granted,first giving SIXTY’ DAY’S no tice thereof, in one of the public gazettes of this Slate, and at the door of the Court House 'where such sales arc’to be held. Notice for the sale of Personal Property must be given in like man. ner, FORTY DAY’S previous to the day of sale. Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be published FORTY DAYS. • Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leavjeto sell LAND, must be published for FOUR MONTHS. Notice for leave to sell NEGROES, must be published for FOUR MONTHS before any order absolute shall be made by the Court thereon. Notice ol Application for Letters of Administration must be publish ed THIRTY DAYS. Notice ot Application for Letters of Dismission from the Administra tion of an Eslnte, are required to be published monthly for SIX MONTHS. MiLLIXEKI ATW lIA VI'IA-JI AKI NG. MRS. LOUIS’A O’BRIEN, RESPF.CTI'I'LLY informs the Ladies of Milledgeville ami its vicinity, that she has lately received from Charles ton, a fine assortment of of her own selection, among which are LADIES, MISSES AMD CHILDREN’S SONNETS, OF THE LATEST STYLE. Some beautiful Drawed Bonnets, of a new and late style. Also, the Latest Fashion for CA PS and HE 4 1)- DRESSES, and the Latest Fashions for LADIES' DRESSES—Arti ficial Flowers of various kinds. ilcr Bonnets will be sold from one dollar and fifty cents, to two, three, even and twelve dollars. Bonnets and Dresses made to eider at the shortest notice, and of the best materials, very cheap for cash. Also, on baud some splendid Feathers for Bonnets. Milledgeville, April llith, 1839. 12—rtf For Ssaie. FBIHE Pond Town settlement of land comprising 1620 - acres, about 400 cleared and in good order for farming, attached is a comfortable dwelling, gin-house, and other ne cessary out buildings. The lands all lie adjoining, a part in Sumter and the balance in Marion county. A great batgain will be given for cash or on a short ciedit. Information can be had relative to its value by reference to Col. Thomas Bivinsof Marion, or Capt. Jno. B. Coleman of Sumter. Ap ply to the subscriber, LaGrange, <reo. ,s. uoxii June 5. L~oo st- GAINESVILLE FEMALE HIGH SCHOOL. G. BEAUMONT, A. M. of Cambridge University, Great Britain, Principal. THIS Establishment, for which a spacious Building, Botanical Garden, and• extensive grounds are in the course of active preparation, will be opened for the education of Young Ladies in the follow ing branches of polite learning : ’[’he Modern Languages; French. Italian, Spanish, and German ; the Belles Letties, Music, Drawing, Elocution, the Mathematics, Experimental and Moral Philosophy, Botany and Geology; as well as the usual studies of the Primary Departments. The mode of instruction in all branches, will be pursued on philosophical principle seal ciliated to save the time and increase the interest of the student. The ground work of this system is a laborious analysis of the studies themselves, resulting in the compilation of entirely new elementary books, by the Principal of this Seminary”; while the physical sciences will be taught entirely by Lectures, explanatory of facts exhibited by the Philosophical Apparatus. The developement of all the functionsof mind and body, that are calculated for the permanent advantage of the Pupils, will be the care of the Principal and his fellow Jeachers. The discipline wilibe on principles of preserving the self respect of Pupil and Instructor. The advancement of the Pupil will be secured by a weekly rectifying of the classes upon exami nation and review. The charges arc (see advertisement. Dec. 1838,) respect ively, $24 00 Primary Department; $45 00 Second ; SBO 00 Senior. No extra charge for any of the above named or any branch of study taught in this Seminary, except for Music, for which arrangements are in forwardness with an eminent teacher; but in the mean time, the use of the Piano, with competent instruction, free of charge, wilibe allowed to students who have partly acquired that accomplishment. Term, 10 months; commence January Ist. 1839. Board at sloper month and under, is secured for Pupils at a respectable citizen’s, under the superintendence of one of the Teachers. Mr. G. BEAUMONT, who is an English Barrister, and the author of several appioved works on Law, the Belles Let tres. and Education, having selected Gainesville as a location for his family, recommends to others, that which decided him in this selection ; the undoubted salubrity of this district, the lesidence there of the most eminent men.hers of the Medical I* acuity, the quiet manners of the neighborhood, and the well supplied markets. Jan. 22, 1839. 52—ts FWIIIOY HILL.—The undersigned informs his friends _■ and those of the late firm of Cutter Cornwell, that he intends resuming the Warehouse and Commision Busi ness at the store next above the one recently occupied by T.JrChace, outlie margin of East Macon, known as the townof Troy. He further informs the public that he has bought bis Goods, &c., and having now on the way, from New York and oilier places, Dry Goods and Groceries, to gether making his stock complete, which will be sold low for ready pay, he will be ready to receive Cotton early in the fall, and be prepared to make advances. He would par ticularly notice Io his friends the great advantages his Ware houses qav< over those in the dense part of the city with re gard to/ire, they being detached from other buildings, and at a distance from any street or lane and well cn-closed. , r , 11. 8. CUTTER. 07” rhe Macon Messenger and Telegraph, Milledgeville Journal and Standard of Union, will publish the above until further notice.— Georgian. FWI H E subscriber having comm-.iiced business in the Re -■ ceiving and Forwarding Goods and Merchandize to and from Augusta, per the Georgia Railroad, begs leave to acquaint his friends and the public that all goods consigned, or orders addressed to him, shall meet with strict and be forwarded to their destination with the utmost prompt itude. ELIPIIAET I.ALE. Warrenton, June 5. 1838. 20-ts 1 «>f first rate MEDIUM PRINTING JL PAPER, for sale at the "Standard” office. Juno 25, 1839 22 ts ®lje Stan&ari of Union. POETRY. /’>oni the New York Mirror, VERSES ON A PAINTING BY DANIEL MACNKE, R. S. A. THE BURNSIDE. A bright and joyous vision Os summer loaves and skies! XVlicie lovely sights and sounds are met In blended harmonics. The birds that warble overhead, In pure and sinless mirth, Are pouring out a stream of song Upon the happy earth. The hidden waters murmur on— A low and pleasant tune— Refreshing with its hreezc-likc flow, The silent air of June : While o’er its bank the wild rose stoops, And wears a deeper hue, Blushing, within the chrystal depth, Her lovely face to view. But sweeter than the red wild rose, And brighter than the sky, Are the graceful pair that stand beneath That greenwood canopy.* One with her locks of snooded jet And gently downcast face, Is bending to her humble task With Nature’s matchless grace. But lovelier still that youthful form, Above whose gentle head Scarce fourteen summers blossoming, The sportive wind hath shed. Whose little fairy foot seems made To press no ruder thing, Than early bursting violets That gem the fields in spring. Oh, lovely one! while thus I look Upon thy beauty rare, Though mortal eye has seldom scon A thing so pure and fair, I cannot deem thee all unreal; And half unconsciously, A thousand wishes in my heart Arc rising up for theo. If I could charm thy future path Through life’s untrodden way, It should be strewn with roses bright, And lit with sunbeams gay. Softly should flow the winds on thee, Softly should beam the sun, And calm as yonder peaceful stream Thy life’s pure current run. It may not be I—to 1 —to mortal mind No power like this is given ; Yet, sweet one, we may hope for thco The sheltering care of heaven. For there thy innocence will find, Than charm or fairy spell, A surer guard from every ill; Young Naiad, fare thee well! INEZ. •Thisis a most exquisite picture. It represents two lovely maidens under a tree ; the elder, in a Scottish shortgown, open at the neck, and showing a beautiful unsunned skin, is washing very vigorously, while the younger, (a portrait of the artist’s eldest daughter) is pouring water into a tub. Y’ou can conceive nothing more admirable than the painting of the golden locks, fair shoulders, and small, delicate feet. MISCELLANEOUS. ANECDOTE OF CHIVALRY. It is related in Mr. Wharton’s history of English poetry, that during the reign of Edward 111. a troop of knights being drawn up, prepared to proceed on some very gallant and perilous enterprise, the Coun tess of Salisbury, one of the most accomplished and beautiful ladies of that day, came forth, and in order to inspire them with invincible fortitude, kissed them every one, in the open street, in the presence of thou sands of admiring spectators! The age of chivalry has passed away. The man that would not fight, with the/.ws of beau ty and intelligence yet lingering on his lips, hath no courage in his soul, and is only fit for treason, strata gem and spoils, and deserves to be driven out of the world by old maids, with broom sticks. a miser’s reflection. On affixing his signature to his will, before using it however, he uttered a deep drawn sigh, or rather groan, ami exclaimed in a sorrowful voice: “Mine Gott! is dis all what a long life come to? For dirty or forty years since I arrived at Bristol, I gave mine time and labor and judgment, drudging like a slave, and denying myself all holydays and lugsuries and comforts, dat I schrape togedder, by hook and by crook, a handsome broperty, and in von liddle mo ment, vid von single sgratch of mine pen, it shall all pass away vrom me for eber and eber, and anoder shall enjoy it; houses and stocksand debts and bills, I must leave dem all pehind. Dis is what makes it so bitter to die.” A punctual man is very rarely a poor man, and ne ver a man of doubtful credit. His small accounts are frequently settled, and he never meets with any diffi culty in raising money to pay large demands. Small debts ruin credit, and when a man has lost that, he will find himself at the bottom of a hill, up which he cannot ascend. There is more true glory in the fields of waving wheat and a rich golden harvest, than in the battle field stained with the mangled corpses, mashed by the hoofs of the fierce charger, where the cannon and trumpet is all but hushed amidst groans of the woun ded and dying. A celebrated barrister one day examining a witness who foiled all his attempts at ridicule by her steady and shrewd answers, at last exclaimed, “ there is brass enough in your head madam, to make a five pail ket tle.” “ And sap enough in yours to fill it,” quickly retorted the unintimidated witness. A hearty laugh is occasionally an act of wisdom. II shakes the cobwebs out of a man’s brains, and the hypocondria from his ribs, far more effectually than champagne or blue pills. The mnsquiloes are so persevering in their business in New Orleans, that their bills are to be found in ev ery man’s hand. I dont know where that boy got his temper. lie did not take it from me.” “Why no, my dear, I don” perceive that you have .lost any!” was the affectionate reply of the sposa. OUR CONSCIENC E OUR COU NT R Y—O UR PARTY. MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 23, 1839. graham’s views of music and dancing. The salutary influence pf animating ntusic, connected with exercise, is very great: in fact, it may*almost be said to be medicinal; for it actually has the most healthful effect on all the vital functions of the body ; and hence, dancing, when properly regulated, is one of the most salutary kinds of social enjoyment, ever practised in civil life: and every enlightened philanthropist must regret to see fit give place to any other kind of amusement. The religious prejudice against dancing is altogether ill-founded : for it is entirely certain, that this kind of social enjoyment, when properly regulated, is more favorable to good health, sound morality, and true religion, than perhaps any other known in society. It is infinitely better that people should come together to sing and dance, in the healthful exhilaration of their spirits, than that they should covne together to eat and drink, or to seek enjoyment in almost any of the modes of social en tertainment of civic life; or that they should endure a mis erable existence in moping melancholy, for want of proper exercise and relaxation. Let me not be misunderstood, however. Ido not intend to encourage the Assembling of young people together at public taverns &. hotels, & spend ing the night in dancing, eating, drinking, and other impro prieties ; but I would have this kind of vxercise mostly con fined to the domestic and social circles. Vocal music ought to be as universal a branch of education asjeading and wri ting and instrumental music should be almost as extensive ly cultivated. If I could have my wish, the violin—the best musical instrument ever invented—should be played in ev ery family in the civilized world—and every evening when the duties and cares ot the day were completed, the whole domestic circle—parents and grand parents, children and grand children—all that could move with comfort, should have an opportunity to join the dance. Even those who had been engaged in active labor through the day, would be refreshed by it; and those who had been confined bv sedentary employment, would be exceedingly benefitted ; the old would be made younger, and the young would be invigorated ; the social feelings would be improved ; sleep would be more sound and refreshing; and all would be made more healthy, more happy, and more virtuous. For true health and true virtue ate more nearly allied than is gener ally supposed. “ How can they addict themselves to the practice of virtue and to the service of God,” says Plato, “who are ever caring for their own miserable bodies?” If music, marching and dancing, constituted a part of the regular exercise of all our Colleges, Theological Semi naries, and other literary and scientific institutions, im mense benefits would result not only to those institutions, but to society at large. Thousands, who now pass from the place of learning to years of misery and an untimely grave, would be preserved in health, and live to be blessed and to bless mankind by their usefulness.— [Graham's Lectures on the Science of Human Life: Vol. 2. ANECDOTE OF WASHINGTON. Maternal Influence. — The true explanation of Wash ington’s sterling integrity is to be found, I think, in that happy and efficient maternal influence, which it is well known was exercised upon him, in his earlier days. On the death of his father, which occurred when he was ten years old, the charge of his education devolved upon his mother. All accounts concur in the admission that she was an extraordinary woman—possessing not only rare intellectual endowments, but those moral qualities which gave elevation, worth and dignity to the soul. These qualities she was particularly desirous to engraft upon the heart of a beloved son, and with what success, the history of his life displays. The particular process by which she accomplished so happy a design, it is not in my power at this time to de scribe ; but a story occurs to my recollection which may serve to show the adroit and admirable manner in which she proceeded on a certain occasion. In the ample pasture belonging to her plantation, was a colt, which, on account of his beauty and high promise, she valued very much. Although of sufficient age to be used, it had never been mounted ; no one seemed disposed to attempt to break its wild and vicious spirit. One day, George proposed to some of his companions to assist him at a future time to secure the colt, until he could mount, and he would curb his proud spirit. Accordingly soon after sunrise, one morning, the youthful band assembled, and having drove the animal into an enclosure, succeeded, with no small difficulty, however-in bridling him. In a moment George sprung upon bis btrc\ and the next moment the sin prised wild, maddened creature, bounded forth into the open field, tearing, running, and plunging; but* George grinding his teeth and clinging fast to the bridle ai d the mane, held his seat firmly, as much determined to subdue as the colt was determined not to be subdued. The strug gle was mutually desperate, and as the companions of George looked on, their terrar and amazement increased every passing moment. At length the colt obtained the advantage, and bounding forward with the speed of an arrow made a mis-step, and in his fall broke a blood vessel and died on the spot. George came down unhurt, but when he beheld the gasping ol the noble animal, and thought of his mother’s regard for it, he was troubled. 11 is companions hurried to the spot, and joined in the regret of George, anxiously inquiring, “\\ hat will your mother say—who can tell her ?” At this moment they were summoned to breakfast.— When seated at the table, Mrs. Washington said, “ Well, young gentlemen, have you seen my fine sorrel colt in your rambles this morning?” The question was natural— but what a question it was ! No answer was returned— and it was repeated. Upon this, George with a perfect fankness replied, “ Mother, your sorrel colt is dead.” This was followed by an exact account of the whole affair. As the youthful and agitated narrator passed along in his story, a flush of displeasure was arising upon her cheek ; but it soon passed away, and she kindly and calmly said, \\ bile I icgrct the loss of my favorite, I rejoice in my son, who always speaks the truth." I scaicely know in what terms to express my admiration of the woman, or of the manner in which she treated this delicate and difficult case. George was greatly in fault, and her rebuke was appropriate and commensurate: h« frankly confessed the whole wrong, and she expressed her high sense of his regard to truth. That speech, short as it was, I dare say told upon his heart—drew his mother nearer to his bosom, and taught him more effectually and more lastingly the importance and value of truth and in tegrity, than a volume of lecturing would have done. It was by such means that this part of the character of Washington was formed. Under the tutelage of such a mother, the foundation of a character was laid, which was the admiration of the generation that was cotemporarv with him ; which has lost nothing of its glory to the present time—and will lose nothing, as long as his memory shall last. Integrity of character! this is what wc want in the ma gistracy of the land—in the Senate chamber—in the pulpit —in the neighborhood—in the family—every where. What a world this would be, were every one’upright— a lover of truth, justice and equity; what a world it is, be cause these things are so seldom found. [.'Wo/Acr’s Magazine. The Cincinnati City Council have under consideration an ordinance authorising the arrest of “all vagrants, loafers, gamblers common street drunkards, and all oddlooking gentlemen having no ostensible daily employment, nor means of livelihood.” JUST IN TIME. A young physician having tried in vain to get into prac tice, at last fell upon an expedient toset the ball to rolling. He sprang upon his horse once a day, and drove at full speed through the village. After an absence of an hour he would return and carry .with him some of his instru ments—thinking that if he could impress his neighbors with the opinion that he had practice, they would begin to place confidence in his ability. A wag who more than suspected the deceit which he was practising detei mined to know the truth. He accordingly kept his horse in readiness, and the next time rhe doctor galloped by the door, he sprang upon his steed and placed himself on the young gentleman’s trail. The doctor saw the man fol lowing at bis heels, but did not at first evince any uneasiy’ ness. At length, however, he thought it advisable to turn down a narrow lane. The pursuer followed on like an evil genius ; but the doctor was not discouraged, as another road lay a short distance before him, down which he turn ed. The other kept close at his heels, and the doctor grew impatient to return home. There was no house by the way at which he could afford any pretext for stopping. In the mean time, his saddle bags were wtih him, and he was other wise so equipped for business that he could not return in the face of his neighbor, without exposing the secrets of the tiade in the most palpable manner. Every bound of his steed carried him further ftom His home, and the shades of night began to fall on hill and tower. Still the sound of horse’s hoofs was thundering in his ear, and he was driven to his wit’s end ; but just as he turned the angle of the wood, he heard a low moan. A man lay prostrate near the fence of a meadow, and blood gushed from a feaiful wound in the arm. He had cut an artery with his scythe, and was in danger of immediate dissolu tion.—The young doctor sprang from his horse and staunched the wound. Bandages were applied, and his life was saved. The pursuer had also thrown himselffrom his horsu and as the physician tied the last bandage, he looked up in his face and said “How lucky neighbor, that I was able to arrive just in lime.” The wondering spectator was silent with awe, and after assisting the wounded man home, he told such a miraculous tale to the wondeting villagers as secured’for the young physician a reputation for skill and also for supernatural prescience. Thus did the merest accident contribute more to his advancement than years of stu dious toil could have done; and the impertinent curiosity of a waggish neighbor opened for him a path to business which the most influential patronage might never have been able to procure for him. The Fifteen Gallon Law.— The question whether a fine, under this law, can be enforced by imprisonment, was urged in the Boston Police Court, on Friday last, in the case of George C. Jacobs, who stands convicted of having sold spirituous liquors in smaller quantities than the minimum named in the act. The final award of the Court was postponed until 9 z\. M. to day, in otder to allow time tor the Justices to make application to the Supreme Court for a decision to guide them in the performance of their duty. We learn from the Allas that the trial occasioned a great sensation in Boston. The Court was crowded, and it was estimated that there were nearly five thousand per sons assembled in Court street and its vicinity. A strong body of the police were in attendance, armed with stout clubs, to preserve order. No disturbance, however, oc curred. Mr. Jacob’s cause appears to be warmly taken up by the gteat body of the people. His appearance in Court was hailW with loud and repeated cheers. After the conclusion of the arguments, he entered into recogni zances in the sum of fifty dollars to appeal this day, and was then conveyed home in a barouche drawn liv four white horses, amid the acclamations of the crowd—W. F. Times. Awful Accident.—lt is with most painful feelings that we announce the melancholy intelligence of an accident which occurred in Yorktown on Wednesday last. The Presbyteri an Congregation at that place are about erecting a new and enlarged church edifice, and on that day a large number of peist.His had assembled to raise the frame of the building. The frame was raised, as we arc told, without difficulty, ex cept the rafters; and the many assistants were engaged in getting them up when the dreadful accident took place. 'I he rafters we understand from a friend, were trussed or framed together, and required a great effort to raise them to their proper position. To accomplish this, a number of men ascended to the top dr plate timbers of the building, anti while in the act of raising the second pair of rafters, one of the plates upon which fifteen men were standing, broke, and pre cipitated the whole number a distance of more than twenty feet to the ground, l ive escaped w ith but little injury, one ol them jumping entirely clear of the building; but of the re maining ten, five were injured severely, and five either dan gerously wounded, or killed on the spot. The names of the persons most injured, are as follows: King Garrison, a color ed man, killed; George White, a coloted man, dangerously wounded; Alsop Strang, of Yorktown, do.; D anief Strang, of Yorktown, do.; Fowler, of Yorktown, do. ” Westchester Herald, July 2d. ' Dispatch.— A person just returned from Washinoton City, has been gone 6 and half days only, two of which were spent in that city—was travelling about 118 hours, say 59 each way, with an opportunity of sleeping a great er part oftwo nights in each passage, on board the steam boats between this city and Wilmington, and 6 or 8 hours on board the steamboat Augusta, between Potomac Creek and Washington. The whole distance is 545 miles, of which 230 miles are by steam boats, 245 by rail road, and 70 by stages. It is said, however, that the staging will be reduced 20 miles by the Ist August, and 10 miles per month after, by the pro gressive completion of the Wilmington and Roanoke Rail Road. Ihe whole of this route is one of dispatch, good order and comfort, as far as such a term can be applied toiapid travelling. Every exertion is made by the officers and agents of the respective steamboats and railroads to make this a popular route.---Charleston Courier. Men measure their characters by a peculiar standard. A man who has but a dollar in his pocket would give a penny for almost any purpose. If he had a hundred dol lars, he might give one; carry it higher, and there comes a falling off. One hundred dollars would be considered too large a sum for him who has ten thousand, while a present of one thousand would be deemed almost mirac ulous from a man worth one hund v ed thousand ; yet the proportion is the same throughout, and the poor man’s penny, the widow’s mite, is more than the rich man’s high-sounding and widely trumpeted benefaction.—l3uf falonian. Lord Brougham vs.the Attorney General.—On an occasion of a most interesting appeal from Scotland in the Hose of Lords, the Ex-Chancellor dissented entirely from the law and practice, ns laid down by the Attorney Gen eral : “Your lordship cannot recollect,” said the Attorney: “your lordship must forget.” “Strange alterations, then,” sain Lord Brougham, “since T knew any thing of Scotch law.” “Your lordship must forget,” reiterated the At torney. “I have no doubt, Mr. Attorney,” said his lord ship, at length, worked into a rage, “1 have no doubt but that 1 have forgotten more than twice as much as you ever knew.” IP. Bz. ISOBMWSON, Pitopi ietorz WHOLE NUMBER 286. From theTenncssee Patriot. MR. VAN BUREN AND THE TARIFF. “ If we cannot vote for Henry Clay because be is in favor of a protective t iriff, how can the South support Mr. Van Buren, who has voted for some of the same bills to which we have alluded, and who is said to be as warm a tariffite as Henry Clay ?” \\ e answer this inquiry by asserting in general terms, and on the very best authority (Mr. Butler’s letter to Mr Garland, March, 1835,) that “Mr. Van Buren’s personal feelings have been at all times averse to the high tariff policy.” « It is known to all who have made themselves acquaint ecLwflfh the politics of New York, during the- last fifteen JdKti’s, that up to 1830, and a few years afterwards, the 'people of that State were generally in favor of protective duties.--Mr Van Buren was their Representative, not nominally as many legislators are, but really and in trmk. He spoke their sentiments, and voted in accordance with their instructions. Now it would be just as reasonable to charge Mr. Grundy with being opposed to the Indepen dent Treasury System, because (being instructed bv the last of this State to do so,) he voted against this measure, as it is, to call Mr. Van Buren the friend of a high tariff for having voted when instructed by Ins con stituents so to do, for a bill, the effect and policy of which wc have the most conclusive evidence 'to prove that he personally deprecated. In his reply to the Shocco Springs committee, in 1832 4 be used the following language : “The protective systenr and its proper adjustment be came a subject of frequent and necessary consideration whilst I formed a part of the cabinet; and the manner in which the President proposed to carry into effect the poli cy in relation to the imports, recommended in his prevwtts messages, has since been avowed, with that frankness which belongs to his character. To this end he recom mended a ‘modification of the. tariff, which should produce a reduction of the revenue to the wants of the Govern ment, and an adjustment of the duty upon imports, with a view to equal justice, in relation to all our national mar kets, and as the counteraction of foreign policy so far as it may be injurious to those interests.’ “In these sentiments I fully concur; and I have beert thus explicit in the statement ot them, that there may be no room for misapprehension as to my own views upon the subject. A sincere and faithful application of these principles to our legislation, nnwarped by private interests or political design, a restriction of the wauls of the Go vernment of a simple and economical administration of its affairs—-the only administration which is consistent with the purity and stability of the Republican system ; a pre ference in encouragement given to such mantifictures «ts are essential to the national defence, and its extension to others in proportion as they ate adapted to our country, and of which the raw material is produced by ourselves, with a proper respect for the rule which commands that all taxes should be imposed in proportion to the ability and condition of the contractors, would, I am convinced, give ultimate satisl’actiun to a vast majority of the people of the United Stales, and tend to arrest that spirit of dis content, which is now unhappily prevalent, and which threatens such extensive injury to the institutions of our country.” In addition to this it will only be necessary to subjoin the following extracts from Mr. Benton’s letter to Gen.” Davis, and we have a complete view of Mr. Van Buren’s sentiments as regards the tariff. “He (Mr. Van Buren) was the first emineqj, member of Congress, north of the Potomac, to open the war, at the right point, upon the tariff of 1828, then undergoing the process of incubation through the instrumentality of a convention to sit at Harrisburg. His speech at Albany, in July, 1827, openly characterized that measure as a po litical manoeuvre to influence the impending Presidential election; and the graphic expression ‘a measure proceed ing more from the CLOSET of the POLITICIAN than from the workshop of the manufacturer,’ “opportunely and facetiously used in that speech, soon became the opinion of the public, and subsequently received the im press of verification from the abandonment, and the man ner of abandonin'?, of the whole fabric of the high tariff policy. Failing to carry any body into the Presidential chair, its doom pronounced by the election of Jackson and Van Buren, it was abandoned, as it bad been created, upon political calculation; and expired under a fiat emanating, not from tite workshop of lite manufactuier, but from the closet of the politician. True, that Mr. Van Buren voted for the tariff' of 1828, notwithstanding his speech of 1827, but equally tru» that he voted under instructions from his State Legislature, and in obedience to the great Democratic principle, [demos, the people, AroZco, to govern.) which has always formed a distinguish ed feature and a dividing landmark between the two great political pat ties which, under whatsoever name, have al ways existed, and still exist, in our country. Sitting in the chair next to him at the time of that vote, voting as he did, and upon tire same principles; interchanging opinions without reserve or disguise, it c >mes within the perception ot my senses to know that he felt great repugnance to the provisions of the tariff act of ’2B, and voted for it, as I did, in obedience to a principle which we both held sa cred.” The South can then, consistently with its principles and its interest, vote lor the te-election of our present Chief Magistrate, whilst all within her and about her, is tinctured strongly with opposition to his great rival. Here we feel satisfied that we might stop and leave the matter with our readers. We had indevd hoped to be able to conclude our remarks on this subject in the present num ber. We cannot do it—nor can wo now fix any definite limits to the observations we feel constrained to make on this all important question. We shall, therefore, commit it for the present, to the serious consideration of our read ers, again adding, that if our liberties are worth preserv ing—if our institutions are kept up—if the welfare of our common cot ntry and the prosperity of the South are worthy of our regard—then—then, can we never enter tain the idea of electing Henry Clay to the Presidency; Aucient Simplicity.— Paulding in his life of Washington, gives the following little anecdote of the mother of this great “She was once present and occupied the seat of honor, at a ball given to Washington at Freder icsburg, while in the full measure of his well-earned glorv, when nine o’clock came, she said to him with perfect simplicity, “Come George it is time to go home.” Elegant Extract.—“ What sir have my client did ? Nothing, sir—nothing. But there stands the man what have did the mischief. Him it were sir, that with all the ferocity of a bloodhound, seized a shingle, and pursued his victim.” The death of a printer is thus chronicled in an English paper: “George Woodock the * of bis profession, the type of honesty, the I of ail, and although the (fy* of death . has put a. to his existence, everv § of Ilia life was without a || .” Beauty in woman is like a Hower in the spring, but virtue is like the stars in heaven. A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife*